History
Trip from Nelson to the Franz Josef Glacier in April 1920
Diary written by Amuri Hunt – Published in NZine 24/05/02 Friday April 23rd 1920 Left Nelson in the Dodge about 8.45 am. Father, Iva, Ethel, Norman & I. Left Highfield at 1 pm on the Glacier trip. Father, Alton, Tommie, Iva, Uncle George, Nurse Bielby, Norman Jack and I stopped at Murchison at the Commercial….
Puke Ariki -Taranaki’s heritage and information centre
Dorothy – 20/10/03 Puke Ariki is Taranaki’s new heritage and information centre that sets a new standard on the world stage. It is the world’s first purpose-built, fully-integrated museum, library and visitor information centre. This complex in New Plymouth won Creative New Zealand’s prestigious Creative Places Award for 2003. It was also the winner of…
Otago Museum hosts Dinosaur Exhibition
News from the Otago Museum – 18/07/03 One-hundred-and-fifty-million years ago, they roamed what are now the plains of China. Now, these towering prehistoric creatures are about to take over the Otago Museum where the newest attraction in New Zealand will also be the oldest. And unlike the man-made imitations in theme parks or the digital…
W J Clarke’s grandson & woman with “steam ticket”
Dorothy – 25/03/03 At the end of March it will be a hundred years since W J Clarke purchased his first Burrell traction engine and began his business as a threshing contractor in South Canterbury. The South Canterbury Traction Engine Club with the help of enthusiasts from other areas will attempt a world record by…
More moa bones recovered
News from the Otago Museum, Dunedin – 20/03/03 Moa Display at the Otago Museum Photo Source Otago Museum An expedition of nine people, led by the Otago Museum, left for the Serpentine Range on a Wednesday afternoon in late February with great expectations of discovering more bones of the upland moa, Megalapteryx didinus. The expedition…
Barretts Farming on Banks Peninsula Part 2
An interview with Robert Barrett Dorothy – 19/03/03 The next generations of Barretts follow in the farming tradition on Banks Peninsula Robert Barrett followed the family tradition and took up farming on Banks Peninsula. After serving in the army in the Korean War he obtained a Rehabilitation farm at Kaituna Valley and he and his…
Spheres from outer space land in New Zealand
Dennis O’Brien – 08/11/02 On the night of April 3rd 1972 at approximately 1am, some observers in the South Island reported sighting bright objects “flaring, disappearing and re -appearing”. Some observers reported sightings at Manapouri, some reported seeing 15 to 20 or more pieces over Queenstown and Clyde, some saw 7 to 9 objects with…
Memorial to the Nineteenth Infantry Battalion and Armoured Regiment: Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force 1939-1945
Victoria Park, Christchurch, New Zealand Dorothy – 11/10/02 The soldiers of the Nineteenth Infantry Battalion and Armoured Regiment (South Island Branch) who fought in the Second World War are honoured in a beautiful living memorial in Christchurch in Victoria Park on the Cashmere Hills. The planting in the area is full of symbolism, and plaques…
Maud Pember Reeves – suffragist and socialist
Dorothy – 02/08/02 Maud Pember Reeves (née Robison), one of the influential New Zealand women of her generation, grew up to be part of Christchurch’s social set, but sought tertiary education, mixed in political circles after marrying socialist politician William Pember Reeves, was an active supporter of women’s suffrage and after moving to London joined…
Maud Pember Reeves – suffragist and socialist
Dorothy – 02/08/02 Maud Pember Reeves (née Robison), one of the influential New Zealand women of her generation, grew up to be part of Christchurch’s social set, but sought tertiary education, mixed in political circles after marrying socialist politician William Pember Reeves, was an active supporter of women’s suffrage and after moving to London joined…